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The Horror: New Adjective Please

Mean Girls was right about many things, but I don't want it to be right about Halloween. It may be a time when "girls can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it," but I'm not one of those girls. I don't want to be a sexy Indian princess, a sexy Spongebob babe, a sexy cowgirl, or a sexy anything else! I just want to play pretend for a night, and I'm neither out there enough nor repressed enough to feel that I need to put myself on display for my one costume party a year. Halloween can happen without miniskirts and thigh-high stockings. (Besides, October 31st is generally cold in Indiana.)

The whole phenomenon is so infuriating, I can't even put it into words. Let's alter course and just for kicks, look at the men's versions of these costumes: Native American, Spongebob, cowboy. They're downright Victorian when it comes to covering the body. Arg!

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I feel like I'm the kind of person who should be on the anti-slut wagon, but I find it to a be a ton of fun. I actually get tired of the backlash against it. I'm all for cute, innovative, non-trashy Halloween costumes for women who want that look. But I'm personally reaching for a slut-in-a-bag costume and then modifying it so that it's a little more quirky and fun (this year I bought an Eve dress with leaves all over, and threw out their freaky stuffed animal-looking snake and cheesy apple purse. I bought a better rubber snake, added leopard print shoes and made a felt apple hair clip).

I'm so focused on the balance between fun and trashy all year round. It's great to be able to get a little goofy and trashy and not worry about it! However, I agree we shouldn't reach for the slut gear just because it's Halloween. I do find the intense emphasis on sex clothes a bit oppressive.

I guess the point to my (long!) rant is that my inner feminist is peeved, but my inner show-off looks forward to the loose standards of Halloween all year. To each her own.

Oh, most definitely. The selection is extremely skewed in the stripper costume favor. And that Eve dress I bought fit me entirely differently than the model because her fake breasts were enormous.

I would love to see at least 50% of women's costumes be non-stripper. To make the choice you and I mentioned, there would have to actually be another option. There isn't much of one now, I totally agree.

Truth be told, I looked up, "Geeky woman costume" and it turned up an overly sexy nerd costume. I wanted to find a cool Firefly costume idea, or maybe a movie reference. No good.

If I do dress up this year, I'd dress as a Hogwarts student, with a gold and maroon tie, a button down white shirt and some cute jeans... that's right, not a school girl uniform. You can be cute and flirty without looking like a hooker.

i agree with the post. i think dressing trashy just shows a lack of creativity. i mean, people can dress trashy and act skanky everyday of the year, and many do...no spongebob theme necessary. it's too predictable.

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